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I don't know what my future is.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

Create your future from your future not your past.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.